A Chicago Wedding Photographer's New Blog

Hello everyone. For those that's been following this blog, thank you. I've moved and the new web address is...www.MelissaDiep.net. Please make not. You can follow me there. It's been nice here but...we're moving on up! Hehe.

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Chicago Wedding Photography | Melissa Diep Blog

Hello everyone. I want to announce that I'm working on a new blog. It's www.MelissaDiep.net. It won't be ready for another couple of weeks so therefore I won't be posting anything new here. So stay tuned...

Westmont Photographer | Ria and Mike Plus 1

This is my second time photographing Ria, Mike and Devon. Last time was about 6 months ago. It's always a blast seeing all three of them again. I'm just happy I was able to witness and capture Devon's first trip to the playground and his fascination with sand!!

Barrington Baby Portraits | Lil C

Lil C got his name from his uncle Big C. Big C is Giant's best friend and also best man at our wedding. It was fun photographing this family. Even more fun for us stuffing Lil C in this tiny box. Thank you Angela (Lil C's mom) for allowing me to capture this precious moment!!! I love you guys!!! Not you "Big C"!!

A Chicago Wedding Photographer's Wedding

Hello. I'm back from my honeymoon. Very jet lagged and extremely tired but still floating and happy! I hear from a lot of couples that their wedding day flies right by. Months, week, and even days leading up to the wedding I was not a bit nervous. My friends were more nervous for me!! Some people even said that I'll probably freak out the day of. Nope! I think because I was so calm about everything was the reason why I was able to enjoy our day. I remember everything about it from the moment I woke up next to Giant to friends coming over our place after the reception. As promised, here are some of my wedding pictures I'd like to share with you. We had three photographers (actually 5 if you want to include Mili and Sid) and here's images from two of them.

First one is from Ray Pryor from www.Emotia.com. He was AWESOME!!! I was so touched that after our ceremony, he held a parasol over me to shield me from the beating sun to keep my makeup from running. And as a present to us before we take off to our honeymoon, he emailed me our pictures!!! We were shocked!! He spent the entire day after the wedding working on the pictures!! Thank you Ray with every fiber of our being for capturing a really important day in our life.

Here's a slideshow of his present to us...

http://www.emotia.com/client/melissa-michael/

These second set of images are from my BFF of over 15 yrs, Apple Umali. Not only was she the maid of honor to our wedding, she was also one of our many photogs. She managed to squeeze in these pictures while being crazy/entertainer at the same time. Photography has always been a hobby of hers but she decided to get down and SERIOUS for our wedding. Thank you my BFF for capturing our wedding. I told my husband (aka Giant and Michael) that he now has two wives. Me and Apple!!

























I'm still waiting on pictures from Bobby Aazami and cinematography from Memories In Motion (Mili and Sid Ghosh). I'll post those once I receive them. Next on the list, a trash the dress session with Ray, Mili, and Sid in August. Can't wait!!

A Chicago Wedding Photographer's Wedding

Hello All. It's now 3 days till my BIG day!!! Gosh, it's so weird 'cuz it's so hard for me to get giddy after shooting so many weddings. I keep waiting for that "wedding mode" to kick in. At this rate, my guess is that it'll probably hit me HARD this Saturday. Well for those of you that's wondering who's shooting this wedding photographer's wedding...it's Bobby Aazami at www.BobbyAazami.com and Ray Pryor at www.Emotia.com. I get asked that A LOT!! hehe. Here are the details to my wedding.

Ceremony-Lincoln Park Zoo Formal Gardens
Reception-Flatwater (on the terrace so I'm PRAYING for good weather)
Photography by you already know who
Hair and Make-up-Styles Down the Aisle
Flowers-Blaumgarten
Honeymoon-Two weeks in Singapore and Hong Kong!!! Yippie!!

In the meantime, please pray that Mother Nature is happy this Saturday!! I'll keep you all posted!

To be continued...

Palatine Baby Portrait | Mekhi

This ADORABLE baby boy is my nephew and I LOOOOVE him to pieces!! Needless to say Auntie MiMi spoils him to death and misses him like crazy when I don't see him weekly!!

FREE Destination Wedding Photography Contest!!!!

Yes!!! FREE!!! No gimmicks!!! I'm giving away a FREE wedding destination photography package to TWO lucky couples that are getting married anywhere outside the United States!!!!

To enter-please submit a photo of both you and your fiance along with a short story. Once short story will do.

What's included-full day of shooting, unlimited photos, and full resolution DVD negatives

What's required-air and two nights stay hotel paid for. If you want a second photographer, full day of shooting at no charge as well. Just add another air and two nights stay hotel.

Call me if you have any questions. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity so take advantage of this and SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!

Chicago Lincoln Park Engagement Portrait | Catherine and Joe Part 2

This is part 2 to Catherine and Joe's e-session. Both Catherine and Joe are my FAVORITE couple!! For those of you that may remember this lovely couple, here's one word to refresh your memory, BLIZZARD!!!! Our last session was taken in the middle of Chicago's winter blizzard storm. This brave couple was so much fun they went through with the shoot AND did snow angels at the end of the shoot in sub zero degrees temperature!! You've got to love them for doing that! My camera equipment was SOAKED but it was worth it 'cuz those blizzard photos turned out amazing!!!!


You can view their first e-session at the end of these sets of photos.